The Battle For Artificial Intelligence Supremacy: Corporations Or Countries? – Analysis

The artificial intelligence race has kept the world watching in rapt attention. Will the People's Republic of China beat the United States of America? If so, what are the implications? Kai-fu Lee, a former executive at Apple, SGI, Microsoft, and Google, argues in his novel AI Superpowers that China will outpace America in terms of AI development thanks to abundant data, eager entrepreneurs, well-educated and trained scientists, and a supportive policy landscape. However, the debate must be reframed: it's not a battle between the United States and China, but it instead appears to be a tug-of-war between seven technology companies--Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Microsoft on the American team and Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent on the Chinese side.